FTB is a barristers’ chambers with a leading reputation for planning, environment, licensing, public, compulsory purchase and land valuation, major infrastructure projects, local government, rating, ecclesiastical and religious liberty, highways, commons and open spaces and ADR.
We are consistently recognised as a leading set by the market and directories because of the quality and number of leading practitioners we can provide, our major projects and our client base.
Co-op Live Manchester is the £365m entertainment venue that plans to make Manchester the musical capital of Europe.
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The case concerns two related applications for the construction and operation of large offshore windfarms in the North Sea.
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In 2016 the Government announced proposals for a Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens immediately to the south of the Houses of Parliament.
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Walleys Quarry is a waste landfill site locate in Newcastle Under Lyme and which opened in February 2007.
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The Sizewell C new nuclear power station at Sizewell in East Suffolk is one of the single most important energy infrastructure projects in the UK for a generation.
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The O2 Academy Brixton is an internationally renowned concert venue, with audiences travelling from all over the world to attend live music events and comedy shows. The iconic stage design is based on Venice’s Rialto bridge and frames Europe’s largest fixed stage. The capacity of the venue is in the region of 5,000 persons.
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Join us on 28 July for a webinar examining the recent High Court judgment in Barstow and Others v Green Generation Energy Networks Cymru Ltd [2026] EWHC 1698 (Admin).The case is the most comprehensive judicial consideration to date of Part 7 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 which confers on acquiring authorities the right to enter and survey land prior to making a compulsory purchase order.
An afternoon seminar followed by a drinks reception. The full programme and booking information will be available soon.
Are you interested in public and administrative law, environmental law, or the legal process governing what gets built where and how? Then you may be interested in a career at the public and environmental Bar.Are you interested in public and administrative law, environmental law, or the legal process governing what gets built where and how? Then you may be interested in a career at the public and environmental Bar.
Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
Annabel Graham Paul Appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford.Annabel Graham Paul has been commissioned as the Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford by the Rt Revd Richard Jackson, Bishop of Hereford.
On 6 July 2026, Kimblin J handed down judgment in Barstow and Others v Green Generation Energy Networks Cymru Limited [2026] EWHC 1698 (Admin).
